The White Helmet

"The driver is expected to explore the inner places of his desire by taking everything to this limit..."

THE WHITE HELMET

And all the boys in the yellow, green, red, blue and silver helmets

“Grand Prix racing is primarily a mental contest… it’s a battle of strength of wills by the combatants and a magnificent contest, the arena to display and share unique gifts and talents. Perhaps in this ‘theatre of speed’, F1 is a metaphor for life itself."

- craig

A book on my great passion, motor racing. Or maybe a story or stories essentially of family, loyalty, redemption, hope, faith and love (some central themes) ....but we’ll see where it all leads. Also perhaps even a true story...or a number of stories!

"The driver is expected to explore the inner places of his desire by taking everything to this limit...to translate it into a sublime peak only he can reach; but the trouble is they're all doing it.... on a narrow ribbon of track, together."

- fine writing by Christopher Hilton in his fascinating book ‘Inside the Mind of a Grand Prix Driver (Haynes Publishing 2003)

WARNING! This book is going to be very different and will NOT be all about motor racing It's a story of finding and following our dreams. We’ll just see what else flows and where the journey leads (as I write)

Am Just starting writing and will post extracts and uplon AS I write.

craig 27th Nov 2011.

Here’s a start...

“I want to write the way Gilles Villeneuve drove and power-slid his blood-red Formula One Ferrari… with wild enthusiasm and a sense of abandonment, combined with the artists craft of a Stirling Moss, a Jim Clark, and especially that of the great Ayrton Senna, living on the razor-blade edge of life.”

for dearest mom and dad, your spirits lives on (forever)

thanks for all the support, encouragement and especially love

craig

“Man is a great wall builder

The Berlin Wall, The Wailing Wall of Jerusalem

But the wall most impregnable

Has a moat flowing with fright around his heart

A wall without windows for the spirit to breeze through

without a door for love to walk in.”

- OSWALD MTSHALI, Soweto (South African) poet from ‘My Traitor’s Heart’ by Rian Malan (published by Vintage 1990)

“It is a celebration of a man’s unique vision – a vision that reaches out and shines, touching with magic the drama of life across all its limitless horizons.”

“The characters seem to represent the virtues and the resilience of the little people, a story (or stories) to which we can all relate. In essence it’s about hope faith and love: a tale (and tales) of the unquenchable spirit of tenacity in battling on, no matter what are our circumstances. And then eventually finding a way, a pathway to overcome personal adversity and to ultimately succeed in glorious triumph.”

- anon

Now that’s some very inspiring words (and hopeful “reviews”) to aim at in my “little work”... to test the very limits of my creative imagination. Eureka. I just had another idea.

I’ll write two or three books at once...and see where they may lead. ‘The Yellow Helmet (the Boy in the Yellow Helmet)’ is “opening soon”... and the curtain will fall down ( that’s a metaphor, btw!)

27th Nov 2011

“Schumachers 2010 return shows the dream still burns - but the rest of us 'losers' should take heart. The key here is the dream, rather than its realisation. It may not be explicable to us mere mortals, but the more I heard about this 'Heaven on Earth' called the Zone, the more I was convinced it is the true Holy Grail - not just for racing drivers, but for all human beings in whatever we do. Finding it often enough inevitably leads to 'winning' in earthly terms, but it only comes into reach, when you rid yourself of the obsession with the end result. The shortcut to the Zone is to join the wimps, forget about winning and revel in the beauty of playing the game.

" The untapped potential in every human being is limitless: we are perfectly capable of producing all by ourselves, true magic."

- Clyde Brolin writing in his fascinating * book (that I've been researching and studying for many years) Overdrive: Formula1 in the Zone

* at least it is to "Formula 1 fanatics and fellow petrol-heads", like this writer

So then time to write yet another book on F1 now, craig!